[NYTr] Cuban, Vietnamese Experts Blast Biofuel Fever

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Cuban and Vietnamese Experts Blast Biofuel Fever

Havana, Dec 6 (acn) Specialists from Cuba and Viet Nam have reiterated 
their rejection of the so called "biofuel fever", which they tagged as 
a crime against humanity.

The statements were made at the closing ceremony of a three-week course 
given in the Cuban eastern province of Las Tunas by experts from the 
Hanoi's Institute of Energy, who trained 35 Cuban specialists in the 
building of high-capability biogas plants.

A Vietnamese researcher from that scientific institution, Doan Thi 
Thanh Hai, noted that the production of ethanol from food to palliate 
oil shortages will aggravate the situation of hungry people around the 
world and could unleash an environmental catastrophe.

For his part, an official from the Cuban Ministry of Sciences, 
Technology and Environment (CITMA), Elber Torres, thanked the 
Vietnamese scientists for their cooperation in the field of green 
energy production.

As part of the course, the Heroic Viet Nam poultry farm in Las Tunas 
has started to build a biogas plant that will generate enough fuel to 
cook the workers' food eliminating a source of environmental pollution.